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Oil and gas companies are keen to use gas that would normally be flared off to run bitcoin mining operations. But environmentalists claim the practice merely perpetuates the use of fossil fuels. Source
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All day I talk to founders in the blockchain category, and all day I hear the same thing — the importance of adoption. Adoption is what everyone is chasing at all costs. This makes sense since the resiliency, overall network effect and ultimately the value of a blockchain rely on
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Facebook’s ambitious 2019 stablecoin project never went live. But it sure left a lasting impression. This feature is part of our CryptoX Turns 10 series looking at the biggest stories in crypto history. Source
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At the first industry conference since Terra’s $40 billion collapse, companies and investors say crypto could face a more uncertain future. Source
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Ghost Coin, the proof-of-stake privacy coin led by John McAfee, can now be used in vending machines in Hong Kong Disneyland.Ghost announced on Twitter that it partnered with crypto payment system ivendPay to deploy the coin in over 60 vending machines around Hong Kong, even those in Hong Kong Disneyland. “When
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John McAfee’s controversial Ghost distributed exchange is now live, the cryptocurrency advocate announced on Twitter over the weekend.The Ghost distributed exchange is related to McAfee’s privacy project Ghost, a Proof of Stake privacy coin intended for more anonymous transactions. McAfee clarified on social media that Ghost will replace the McAfeeDEX
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How the myth-making around Satoshi reinforces what makes bitcoin unique in the landscape of global monies. On Wednesday, a batch of coins mined just a month after bitcoin’s birth were moved. It was the first time since August 2017 that any bitcoin from early 2009 had been transferred, and the action
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In mid-April, news.Cryptox.trade reported John McAfee’s new privacy token called Ghost, as the former anti-virus tycoon detailed “governments will be unable to shut it down.” Ghost won’t be distributed in the usual fashion by leveraging an initial coin offering (ICO), as the project will instead utilize the airdrop process.
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Bitcoin was spooked by a ghost Wednesday, tumbling 7% in the span of an hour on reports a previously inactive address dating to the blockchain network’s earliest days had transferred more than $300,000 of the cryptocurrency. The scare brought a quick end to bitcoin's four-day rally. Prices for the largest cryptocurrency
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Eccentric cryptocurrency advocate John McAfee admitted his anonymity-oriented project Ghost “copy-pasted” parts of its whitepaper from the documentation for open-source privacy coin PIVX in a series of tweets today. He nonetheless appears to intend to sue PIVX for defamation. Ghost vs. PIVX — brief recapEarlier this week, PIVX developers claimed that
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